Kiev and the rebels have also said they are planning to exchange hundreds of prisoners as part of the new peacemaking attempts.
He added: "Part of that means reaching out to unionism and today really was about peacemaking towards unionism.
"The EU is the biggest peacemaking institution ever created in human history," said Herman Van Rompuy, the president of the European council, who chairs EU summits.
A grim reminder of the alternative to peacemaking will come in the remembrance of the first world war, which began in 1914.
The shipment to Hizbullah of a balance-tipping new weapon, a skirmish on the Lebanese or increasingly volatile Gaza border any number of miscalculations could ignite a conflagration.From peace process to war processAll of this should give new urgency to Arab-Israeli peacemaking.
That the PLO did eventually recognise Israel is an enormous act of compromise and the finest example of peacemaking throughout this bloody conflict.
"Only a resolute effort by leaders and the world can remove the causes of your present situation," he said.Any contribution to peacemaking could hardly have come at a better time.
"He really told him, 'If you give me nothing to work with, America will keep trying to defend you but it will not be enough,'" says Daniel Levy, an Anglo-Israeli former negotiator who works for the New America Foundation, a peacemaking outfit in Washington, DC.Rarely has the outlook seemed so bleak.
Forget peacemaking: neither the rest of the world nor Israel has worked out how or whether to deal with Hamas.
The Inter-Governmental Authority on Development is the forum for peacemaking in Sudan, and is so far doing its work through diplomacy alone.
Soon after the Gulf war of 1991, the first President Bush convened a summit of Arabs and Israelis in Madrid, thereby initiating a decade of peacemaking.
